Controlling the Technologies of Privacy Invasion

控制隐私侵犯技术

• 批准号: 9817957
• 负责人: James Rule
• 金额: $ 7.28万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2001-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9817957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Controlling; Technologies; Privacy; Invasion

Computing and related information technologies have generated vast new pressures from government and private organizations to acquire and use information on "private" citizens. These practices include the monitoring of private citizens' movements by police and other state agencies; the sale and trade of consumers' personal data for marketing, credit reporting, insurance and other commercial purposes; and the appropriation of financial data on private citizens by government agencies involved in taxation and other enforcement activities. Since the 1960's, every Western democracy has enacted legislation and policy to control publicly-defined abuses of information technology leading to erosion of personal privacy. Various strategies to control privacy abuses include the creation of privacy ombudsmen, industry self-regulation, governmental privacy protection boards and the like. In a one-year pilot investigation, this study aims to identify cases that will form the basis for a full, comparative, cross-national study of privacy protection efforts. The year will be spent interviewing key figures in personal data protection in the US and abroad; these will include academic specialists, government and corporate officials, and privacy activists. Other activities during this first year will include analyses of primary and secondary documentary sources relating to potential cases for study. The aim will be to generate a list of notable successes and failures in legislative and policy efforts to protect personal data - along with a series of documentary sources and potential interviewees to serve as sources in the ensuing investigation of these efforts.

计算机及相关信息技术给政府和私人组织带来了巨大的新压力，要求它们获取和使用有关“私人”公民的信息。这些做法包括警察和其他国家机构监测普通公民的行动；出于营销、信用报告、保险和其他商业目的出售和交易消费者个人数据；以及参与税收和其他执法活动的政府机构挪用普通公民的财务数据。自20世纪60年代以来，S以来，西方每个民主国家都制定了立法和政策，以控制公开定义的滥用信息技术导致个人隐私受到侵蚀。控制侵犯隐私的各种策略包括设立隐私监察员、行业自律、政府隐私保护委员会等。在为期一年的试点调查中，这项研究旨在确定将构成全面、比较、跨国隐私保护努力研究的基础的案例。这一年将用于采访国内外个人数据保护领域的关键人物；这些人将包括学术专家、政府和企业官员以及隐私维权人士。第一年的其他活动将包括分析与潜在研究案例有关的主要和次要文献资料来源。其目的将是列出保护个人数据的立法和政策努力的显著成功和失败的清单--以及一系列文件来源和潜在的受访者，作为随后对这些努力进行调查的来源。